If there's one silver lining to living in troubled times, it's that great (or at least interesting) art seems to flourish in its wake. Think of the Renaissance: the Protestant Reformation was tearing the Christian world apart, there were constant wars and invasions -- and yet the greatest art ever was produced (Orson Welles had a great speech about this very subject in The Third Man).
Living in this awful age of Trump has similarly led to an explosion of art and now you can go see it: in Tribeca there's a new exhibit of Trump-era inspired art called One Year of Resistance. As you might imagine, it's a critique of the current gasbag presidency but one that also offers a glimmer of hope for a better future.
See it now. You can say you were present at the creations.
P.S. Here's the classic quote from The Third Man:
"Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
P.S. Here's the classic quote from The Third Man:
"Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
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